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Subject: Call for co-chair election, and nomination(s)
Members of the OASIS International Health Continuum TC: I am pleased to report that Dr. DeLeys Brandman has confirmed that she will be able to continue serving as chair of this committee. We appreciate the leadership she has provided to the important work of this committee, especially as tremendous demand builds for practical, robust methods to use standardized data structures to address a variety of core health informatics needs. The IHC TC defined some early work plans for progress towards standardized approaches to EHRs and several other key use cases, but has deferred meeting for the past few months. Now OASIS is being approached to provide substantial assistance by applying and specifying combination of its existing and developing data standards, along with other suitable open standards, to fully solve these needs. My colleague Dr. Brett Trusko, this TC's OASIS staff contact, has been in close contact with multiple other national an international health informatics standards bodies, who are quite interested in working closely with OASIS -- and our considerable stable of existing, useful work in XML, access control, messaging, registries, structured data, knowledge management and other relevant functions. We would like to have the IHC TC act as a focal point for this input and assistance. To rise to this challenge will require significant investment of leadership time. In order to supplement the time available from Dr. Brandman and Dr. Trusko, Dr. Brandman asked me to open a ballot for the election of a co-chair for this committee. I declare nominations open for that role, and am pleased to report that Peter L. Elkin, MD, a member of this committee, has indicated that he will accept Dr. Brandman's nomination. Dr Elkin is Professor of Medicine, and the Director of the Laboratory of Biomedical Informatics, at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, in Rochester, Minnesota. We appreciate the willingness of Dr. Elkin and the Mayo Clinic to make his time available to help lead this effort. OASIS staff have made inquiries about other potential candidates as well. Of course, election of a co-chair is a matter for the committee to decide. TC members are welcome to nominate or suggest others, and should do so to me directly or to this list. However, if I am aware of no other nominees, then I will plan to conduct an election ballot. Accordingly, failing objections, I plan to open a ballot next week, for a duration of one week, which will list each declared candidate as well as permit write-in nominations. In the interim, I will review the TC records to confirm that the voting status of each member is properly reflected in the roster. This timing would allow a conference call meeting in mid-October for future planning, in time to respond to some specific opportunities in November and December. It may also be helpful for the TC to hear a report on the currently-forming US Health Information Technology Standards Panel, whose imminent first meeting will produce key timelines for additional standards-scoping opportunities. While this is a matter for the TC to decide, we will suggest that in October you also consider a face-to-face meeting during the 4th quarter 2005, to cement and articulate the TC's workplan for its specific deliverables. As always, we deeply appreciate your contributions to our e-health work as well as your support for open standardization. We look forward to talking with you at the TC's next meeting. Best regards Jamie Clark ~ James Bryce Clark ~ Director, Standards Development, OASIS ~ jamie.clark@oasis-open.org
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